Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in EuropeTheatre of the Book is an account of the entangled histories of print and the theatre in Europe between the Renaissance and the late nineteenth century: a history of European dramatic publication (providing comparative and historical perspective to the growing field of textual studies); an examination of the creation of the modern notion of text and performance; and a comparative genealogy of ideas about theatrical and textual reception. It shows that, far from being marginal to Renaissance dramatists, the printing press had an essential role to play in the birth of the modern theatre, crucially shaping the normative conception of 'theatre' as a distinct aesthetic medium and of drama as a distinct narrative form, helping to forge a theatricalist aesthetics in opposition to 'the book'. Treating playtexts, engravings, actor portraits, notation systems, and theatrical ephemera at once as material objects and expressions of complex cultural formations, Theatre of the Book examines the European theatre's continual refashioning of itself in the world of print. |
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... readers, and (perhaps most important) deliberately to misinterpret it, overlooking the precisions of Horace and ... reading herald, emblem Introduction.
... readers, and (perhaps most important) deliberately to misinterpret it, overlooking the precisions of Horace and ... reading herald, emblem Introduction.
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... Renaissance theatre of the last century has shown.35 But by the end of the sixteenth century, it became difficult for spectators and readers in most places to think of entertainments with actors and not relate them Introduction.
... Renaissance theatre of the last century has shown.35 But by the end of the sixteenth century, it became difficult for spectators and readers in most places to think of entertainments with actors and not relate them Introduction.
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... readers, all material in the text proper is in English, but out of a recognition of the important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes. The majority of the material ...
... readers, all material in the text proper is in English, but out of a recognition of the important nuances that are lost in translation I have provided original language quotations and titles in the notes. The majority of the material ...
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... readers or actors), indicating no more than the order of appearances, general stage directions, and first lines of speeches and songs.3 As theatrical activity increased along with leisure-time reading, as both printers and scriptoria ...
... readers or actors), indicating no more than the order of appearances, general stage directions, and first lines of speeches and songs.3 As theatrical activity increased along with leisure-time reading, as both printers and scriptoria ...
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... readers and listeners. Most plays had multiple purposes; most printers and writers attempted to represent the past simultaneously in a variety of ways, and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users ...
... readers and listeners. Most plays had multiple purposes; most printers and writers attempted to represent the past simultaneously in a variety of ways, and to offer their goods up to a variety of possible future uses and users ...
Contents
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THEATRE IMPRIMATUR | 91 |
THE SENSES OF MEDIA | 145 |
THE COMMERCE OF LETTERS | 201 |
THEATRICAL IMPRESSIONS | 255 |
Epilogue | 308 |
Notes | 313 |
Works Cited | 444 |
Index | 487 |
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Theatre of the Book, 1480-1880: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe Julie Stone Peters Limited preview - 2003 |
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